I understand weightlifting/resistance training is not for everybody it is crucial to prevent sarcopenia a little too early in life. And it doesn’t take a whole lot to get 90% of the benefits from strength training. Two sessions of 1hr each is all you need to reap most of the benefits.

This stuff is incredibly complex to study. And every time I read a study I forget to archive it somewhere. We don’t have all of the answers, but studies like this one:pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37600508/

Really make me go, get your ass to the gym. No excuses.

And I suspect we are just looking at the tip of the iceberg here when it comes to things like BDNF. In short, exercise (specifically Strength Training and HIIT) seems well worth it since it is having some kind of effect on people who already have Alzheimer’s.

I wish the fitness industry promoted the practical and real cognitive benefits of strength training instead of using using people with eating disorders and six-packs(six-packs usually aren’t healthy by the way) to show/advertise the “perfect body”. When in reality they should be promoting how much it can help your cognition and mood. I might get heat for this, but I’ll say it anyway: I swear people would not have to take as many antidepressants in this country as they do if they just strength-trained twice a week. I see it in the software industry every day how people 15,20 years my senior (whom I respect since they are my mentors) and it hurts to see the beer gut and the lack of vitality (you can see this in someone’s face regardless of age) just because as programmers we are sitting all the time, and if you don’t fight the negative side effects of that with exercise your body will respond in nasty ways.

Not sure if this answers the question; but, as soonest as I learned about BDNF and how muscle building can increase the levels of of it, I became a gym rat. I want my brain to keep working past 90 and be able to program well into my 90s (I wanna be yelling at everyone about my struggles with Rust). All seriousness if you don’t wanna have dementia a little too early in life. Lift. Weights. Don’t ignore cardio though. But BUILD so you can reap the benefits of your lean mass into your elder years . Training also helps me improve my MTB performance, which I find really fun.

Sorry for the wall of text :D

Six; 42 a week! Easy way to hit my protein goals everyday and maintain those gains :D

Resmaster of Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks. Best Mortal Kombat I ever played.

Two things that helped me in the past year:

• Avoiding caffeine after 10:00AM or so. I cut coffee completely, but I noticed positive effects by just drinking all caffeine before ~10:00AM.
• Sleep mask helped me a ton. Turns out we are super sensitive to the most minute amount of light.
• At least for me, not eating past ~6:00PM makes falling asleep way easier.
• Regular exercise (of any kind) allows you to fall sleep easier. Probably has to do with regulating hormones/biological subsystems.
• NO PHONE on bed. Bed is only for sleep and sex. In my opinion anyway.

Hope this helps!

Another guy with an MBA:It needs to have AI too!!! You know, like ChaTGPT. So it can reason about the world!!

Engineer: You know ChatGPT can’t “reason” right?

MBA Guy: But I can tell it to autogenerate code!

Engineer: It’s just finding code snippets like you could find with a search engine.

MBA: But they said it was sentient! AI!! LLMS!! SYNERGY!!

Engineer:…Nevermind. Yes, we’ll build a submarine that can fly and add a chat box so you can ask it what it is thinking.

Engineer quits next day

I’m half joking, but it pains me as an engineer to admit how close to reality this can be.

I’m shocked, I thought it was sentient!

Hi there! First off--this looks awesome! Thanks for making it! Do you need any help with anything? I'm not a slouch at Rust and would love to see a desktop client for Lemmy that everyone can use! Is there anything you need help with testing? Dev? Docs?

Gee I wonder why... ;)